Bloom reports: "Monsanto has been particularly talented at vacuuming up well connected ex-Congressmen, Senators and other government officials to go back and lobby the government, using their connections for the company's benefit. And it also has been great at placing its own people into the agencies that are supposed to be regulating it."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, 02/07/12. (photo: AP)

Monsanto Employees in the Halls of Government

By Jeremy Bloom, Red Green and Blue

16 February 12

ow bad is the revolving door between Monsanto and government? This handy chart (from geke.us) pretty much sums it up.

Monsanto has been particularly talented at vacuuming up well connected ex-Congressmen, Senators and other government officials to go back and lobby the government, using their connections for the company's benefit. And it also has been great at placing its own people into the agencies that are supposed to be regulating it.

One of the worst examples isn't even on the chart - Michael R Taylor:

Taylor started off as a partner at the law firm that represented Monsanto on GBH issues (artificial growth hormones that make cows give more milk).

Then, as the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy, he wrote the FDA's rBGH labelling guidelines – the ones that insisted there was no difference between rGBH and regular milk.

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The lunatics are running the asylum - and it shows!!! The sorry excuse for a government in DC is as corrupt as any big bank. The big banks issue the orders and the PUPPETS in DC do what they are told! god help us

Monsanto is truly a corporation with designs on monopolizing (and adulterating) food in America. See http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2012/02/17/the-face-of-evil-12807395/for a partial history of this company and its friends in government.

Now...after a Chinese scientist (the study would never get funded here) has shown that RNA from the things you eat can be found directly in the blood, they had better lobby like hell because their science is dropping from beneath their feet.

There is no country on the fact of the earth that has been responsible for more unnecessary killing since WWII and human misery in the world than the US of A. The world includes our 50 states, the D of C, territories and possessions.

Monsanto was one of the main corporations that brought the world asbestos. It was bailed out by congress when the asbestos bubble burst into lung disease. Then Monsanto sold Agent Orange to the Pentagon for use in Vietnam and elsewhere. Again it was bailed out when Agent Orange proved to cause cancer and birth defects. Now Monsanto is the king of genetically modified plants and very dangerous herbicides.

Why isn't this company considered an organized crime syndicate. Its products have killed tens of millions of people around the world. It is now threatening the world's food supply.

In India, Monsanto's BT cotton turned out to be more vulnerable to a certain insect and tens of thousands of farmers who borrowed money to buy the seeds were destroyed. Many committed suicide. They were bankrupt and lost their farms.

Monsanto is an organize crime syndicate. It places its agents in government to immunize it from criminal investigation. There's no hope for the US, but many other independent and sane nations around the world are beginning to ban Monsanto. They face trade sanctions and retaliation from the US, but they are trying to keep the criminals off their streets. In the US, the criminals are in the halls of government -- and welcomed in their by Obama, Hillary, Biden. The US government is the stupidest institution on earth for allowing these criminals into its operations.

Then Monsanto sold Agent Orange to the Pentagon for use in Vietnam and elsewhere. Again it was bailed out when Agent Orange proved to cause cancer and birth defects. Now Monsanto is the king of genetically modified plants and very dangerous herbicides.

Why isn't this company considered an organized crime syndicate. Its products have killed tens of millions of people around the world. It is now threatening the world's food supply.

Monsanto is an organize crime syndicate. It places its agents in government to immunize it from criminal investigation. There's no hope for the US, but many other independent and sane nations around the world are beginning to ban Monsanto. They face trade sanctions and retaliation from the US, but they are trying to keep the criminals off their streets. In the US, the criminals are in the halls of government -- and welcomed in their by Obama, Hillary, Biden. The US government is the stupidest institution on earth for allowing these criminals into its operations.

Didn't know they supplied agent orange but not surprised; thanks for that info' as an addition to their unparalleled and appalling list of crimes in cahoots with the US Military Death-Machine.!

Nobody has made the connection between Monsantos altered corn and our government spending huge amounts of taxpayer dollars to push for ethonol. Which is a fools game by any standard. What little savings there are at the pump are engineered to be that way. We are being manipulated and sold by our elected officials.

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